Tom Lane wrote:
> Peter Eisentraut <pete...@gmx.net> writes:
> > I tried throwing various kinds of subtle garbage into the errmsg/ngettext 
> > line, but it was all discovered by gcc -Wall.
> 
> I experimented with this and found that indeed both format strings are
> checked ... if you have a reasonably recent libintl.h AND you have
> specified --enable-nls.  Otherwise it all goes to heck, apparently
> because the compiler doesn't try to look through our substitute
> definition
> 
> #define ngettext(s,p,n) ((n) == 1 ? (s) : (p))
> 
> So I'm still of the opinion that we need some work here.  I think
> that instead of this #define we need an actual function that we can
> hang a couple of __attribute_format_arg__ markers on.  Otherwise
> things are going to slip by us.  (Not sure about you, but I don't
> build with --enable-nls by default.)

TODO item?

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